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Out of Whiteness:

Color, Politics, and Culture
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University of Chicago Press, 2002 - Social Science - 326 pages
Vron Ware and Les Back look at key points in recent American and British culture where the "color line" has been blurred. Through probing accounts of writers who have disguised themselves in order to investigate racism, the growth of the White Power music scene on the Internet, the meteoric rise of big band jazz during the Second World War, and the pivotal role of white session players in crafting rhythm and blues classics by black artists, Ware and Back upset the idea of race as a symbol of inherent human attributes. Challenging recent trends in academia, the authors argue against reconstructing whiteness as a distinct cultural identity. Ware and Back give us a timely reckoning of the forces that continue to make people "white," and reveal to us the polyglot potential of identities and cultures.
  

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Notes
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Index
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About the author (2002)

Vron Ware is a lecturer in sociology and in women's and gender studies at Yale University. She is the author of Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History.

Les Back teaches sociology and urban studies at Goldsmiths College University of London. He is the author of New Ethnicities, Multiple Racisms: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives.

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